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Jul - Aug 2014 Page 2 by Michael E. Cohen Why iWork Had to Change (and What That Has to Do with Aperture)

recently announced it is phasing out to my Mac, and never once saw a layout shift or a font get Aperture and iPhoto in favor of a new changed as a result of the document’s peregrinations. To be ApplePhotos app for both iOS and OS X (“Say Goodbye to iPhoto sure, if I use a font on the Mac that iOS doesn’t provide, the and Aperture,” 27 June 2014). document does look different in iOS: that’s because Pages for iOS provides a substitute font for display purposes. But I can hear you thinking (yes, I can do that), “What does the iOS app also remembers the font I originally used, and Aperture or iPhoto have to do with iWork?” Here’s what: when the document gets back to my Mac, that font shows once again, I’m seeing comments pop up in various places up again right where it belongs. (In my few experiments asserting that Apple’s goal when it reworks its software with the other iWork apps, Numbers and Keynote, I saw is either the deliberate “iOS-ification” of the software, or similar examples of document integrity being preserved as deliberately “dumbing it down.” Right after the Aperture/ I moved documents between platforms.) iPhoto news broke, in fact, I saw one commenter (no link, because I don’t want to embarrass the person) write that So much for dumbing down. Now what about the replacement of Aperture by the yet-to-be-released iOS-ification? Photos app is just like what Apple did when it (purportedly) replaced Pages on the Mac with the iOS version. As I said, I’m not quite sure I know what that term even means, but I think it might mean that the apps all look Yes, that is what the commenter claimed happened last alike and act alike, whether on an iOS device or a Mac. If October with iWork. That’s flat out wrong, of course: Apple so, that’s certainly not true of Pages, or of the other iWork did no such thing with Pages, nor with the rest of iWork, apps, and I don’t think that is what is going to happen with and I’m pretty sure that Apple won’t be doing that with Photos either. Aperture. First of all, the apps don’t look alike; in the case of Pages, I Now, I won’t deny that each of the iWork apps lost a lot of have hundreds of screenshots that prove just the opposite. features when their new versions were released last October. Yes, there are some similarities. For example, the default But after studying one, Pages (after all, I am writing “Take guide colors in Pages for Mac and Pages for iOS are the Control of Pages”), I can declare that Apple has not delib- same. And, yes, that is a trivial example: I chose it because erately “dumbed down” Pages, nor has the Mac version most of the examples of iOS-ified appearance in the Mac undergone “iOS-ification” (whatever that is supposed to app are trivial. The similarities between the Mac iWork mean anyway). What Apple has done is to ensure document apps and their iOS counterparts are skin-deep, designed integrity when a Pages document travels from Mac to iOS to create a family resemblance between the Mac and iOS and back. Providing that integrity is what made the iWork apps. reboot necessary, and something like that is what is behind the transition from Aperture (and iPhoto) to Photos. I’m fine with that because, regardless of their superficial similarities, each of the apps works the way you expect it to Let’s think back to how things worked with iWork last work on its respective platform. For instance, on the Mac, September. Suppose you created a Pages document on your you can position an object precisely on the page in a Pages Mac and saved it in iCloud as Apple encouraged you to document by entering coordinates in the Format Inspector, do. Then you opened the document on your iPad, and you whereas on an iPad you use multi-touch finger gestures to saw, to your disappointment, that some fonts had changed move objects precisely. You get the same result, but you do and that layouts had shifted. So you sighed and went back it in quite different ways; the apps don’t act alike. to your Mac and opened the document with Pages there, and you discovered — now, to your horror — that the Nor do the Mac and iOS apps provide identical capabilities: changes you saw on your iPad had carried over to the Mac. the Mac Pages app provides a lot more functionality than Then you said a few words that I won’t repeat here. the iOS app. Take styles, for instance: you can apply para- graph, character, or list styles in either app, but you can The true “dumbing down” was what happened to iWork create new styles only on the Mac. There are dozens of documents as they traveled across platforms. places in my Pages book where I point out that one feature or another is only available on the Mac. This doesn’t happen with the new iWork apps. Over the past few months, I’ve flung Pages documents from my So much for iOS-ification. That’s not what’s going on with Mac, to my browser, to my iPhone, to my iPad, and back the Mac apps either. Jul - Aug 2014 Page 3 What is going on, as I said, is that Apple is making sure transparently managing the handoffs. As I pointed out in that the documents handled by its apps on any of its “iCloud: The Anti-Social Network,” 6 February 2014, Apple platforms retain their integrity. This means that opening up sees iCloud as a digital hub that connects your Apple de- a Keynote presentation on an iPad won’t discard carefully vices, allowing seamless access to your information from applied transitions because of a missing animation, or that any device. But unless the apps on all of Apple’s platforms opening a Pages document on an iPhone won’t permanently can provide a good user experience and not damage the data blow out your document’s layout because a font is missing. in the process, the iCloud digital hub would be almost useless. To achieve this, Apple rebuilt the iWork apps from the ground up. In the process, some features in all the iWork And that’s exactly what Apple is doing with iWork: making apps were lost (though in fact, Apple promised to restore sure that when you store an iWork document in iCloud, many of the missing features over time and has begun to you won’t damage it no matter the device you open it on. do so). Apple is likely doing something similar with Photos, The previous generation of iWork apps was not designed developing data and metadata implementations that can for a seamless, cross-device, cloud-managed experience work efficiently for images across all the platforms that — how could they be? There was no App store when they Apple supports. Some features will almost certainly be lost. were in development, nor was there an iPad, and iCloud And some of them will come back later, along with new was something called MobileMe (about which the less said features. (For a more detailed analysis of what is going on the better). For Apple to provide a seamless, cross-device, with Aperture, see Jeff Carlson’s Aperture’s“ Golden Hour,” cloud-managed experience, it had to build its apps with 2 July 2014.) that experience in mind — patching old code just won’t cut it. Behind all of this re-engineering, of course, is iCloud. As Tim Cook pointed out more than two years ago, iCloud So what’s behind Apple’s rebooting of iWork, and what’s is “not just a product, it’s a strategy for the next decade.” driving the move from iPhoto and Aperture to Photos? I Apple imagines an ideal customer who has several different think the answer is clearly cloudy. Apple devices (or, better yet, all the devices), and who freely bounces documents between them, with iCloud by Josh Centers Six Useful Apple Accessories

are endless mountains of accessories for your Apple products, and, let’s be honest, Theremost are junk. If you’ve been in the Apple world for any length of time, you’ve probably accumulated a closet full of iPhone cases, adapter cables, keyboards, screen protectors, and other bric-a-brac.

After over a year of being a professional technology writer, I’ve amassed far more than my fair share of crud, but I have found six gizmos that truly do improve my everyday Apple experience.

Skiva USBLink Duo 2-in-1 Cable — The Lightning port found in Apple’s newer iPhones, iPods, and is great, providing quick charging and unidirectional insertion. But MagCozy — Speaking of proprietary Apple cables, do you as with many things Apple, it’s nonstandard. Most devices have one of those MagSafe to MagSafe 2 converters to use from other companies, such as Amazon’s Kindles and your older Apple power supplies with newer ? Android phones, and even iPhone battery packs and iPad That adapter is tiny, and easily lost, which is where MagCozy keyboard cases, charge using a micro USB plug. comes in. If you’re primarily an Apple household, it might not make Similar to the design of the aforementioned Skiva cable, the much sense to keep a micro USB cable plugged in all the time. That’s where Skiva’s ingenious USBLink Duo 2-in-1 MagCozy tethers the MagSafe 2 adapter to your MagSafe Cable comes in handy. On the surface, it appears to be a cable, whether it’s a T-style or L-style. You can attach and normal one-meter Lightning cable, but when you remove detach the adapter at any time, but it remains secured to the cap, a micro USB plug is revealed underneath. The your cable — and out of your couch cushions. The MagCozy USBLink Duo 2-in-1 retails for $15.99, but availability is comes in seven colors (including Glow in the Dark), and limited. costs $9.99 for two. Jul - Aug 2014 Page 4 That sounded lame, until I figured out a better way to use it. Slide the iSlip Lite over the middle panel of your iPad’s Smart Cover, with the elastic facing out, then fold the Smart Cover into a triangle. The flat side of the triangle is now a cleaning surface, turning your Smart Cover into a big fingerprint eraser for your iPad. The iSlip Lite costs $5.99, and comes in a variety of colors and patterns, if that floats your boat.

Lenmar Meridian — I wouldn’t want to use one all the time, but a battery case for your iPhone is handy to have when traveling and in case of emergency.

Before I left for Macworld/iWorld 2014, I picked up the Lenmar Meridian iPhone 5 Power Case ($89 list; $65 at Amazon), which came recommended by The Wirecutter. Magnetic Organization System — If you house your It’s about half the price of the popular Mophie Juice Pack MacBook on your desk, as I do, you probably also have to Plus, and has a beefier battery — 2,300 mAh versus the deal with the annoyance of your cables falling behind your Juice Pack’s 2,100 mAh. desk when you unplug them.

The few times I’ve had to use it, the Lenmar Meridian has The Magnetic Organization System (MOS) is a clever served me well, giving me a full 24 hours of battery life gadget that attaches to your desk via suction (or to a wall without a full recharge, and without being too obtrusive. with an included adhesive circle). Inside, there’s a magnet Unfortunately, it doesn’t fit the iPhone 5c. that latches onto the ends of USB and DisplayPort cables, keeping them from dropping to the floor. For non-magnetic cables, such as Ethernet cables, the MOS comes with three magnetic cable ties that you can attach to make them cling.

The MOS retails for $19.95 for the plastic versions and $39.95 for aluminum. A set of three extra cable ties sells for $5.00.

Nimblstand — Do you struggle with finding a place for iSlip Lite — The first time I saw the Slipi Lite from Cooper your iPad and/or iPhone on your desk? The Nimblstand Product, I found myself asking, “What the heck is this is an innovative solution. It’s a plastic stand that attaches thing?” It’s an elastic band with microfiber on one side. The to your Apple Wireless Keyboard, with a slot that can hold idea is that you wrap it around your iPad’s case, then take an iPad in landscape orientation, or an iPad and iPhone it off to clean your screen. together in portrait orientation. Jul - Aug 2014 Page 5 an ideal angle for drawing. To this end, the Nimblstand features a slot to hold a stylus and a hole to hold a stylus upright.

Much as I like it, I have two minor reservations about the Nimblstand. First, I wish it were aluminum instead of plastic, which feels cheap and clashes with the keyboard’s aesthetics. Second, the Nimblstand comes with a couple of adhesive foam blocks to attach inside its slot to accommo- date the thinner bezel of the iPad Air. Having to stick little foam blocks to the stand feels kludgy.

The Nimblstand retails for $39.99 by itself, or for $56.99, Another interesting use for the Nimblstand is as a kind of you can buy one bundled with a Wacom Bamboo stylus.

easel for drawing on your iPad. If you turn the Nimblstand Do you have a favorite Apple accessory that you use every so the keyboard is facing away from you, the iPad is at day? Tell us about it in the comments! by Steve McCabe Charge Your Electronics Before Flying, or Risk Losing Them

up with technology is hard; States leave, partly because any country that fails to do so keeping up with the regulations Security canceling flights from those countries in the future. Keepingsurrounding technology is much, much harder. One country that seems unlikely to face such non-compliance The latest development for the traveling techie is the news actions is the United Kingdom. The TSA’s announcement that the American Transportation Security Administration was made on July 7th; on July 8th, the British government’s (TSA) will start requiring, at some overseas airports, that Department for Transport announced that they would be electronic devices flying into the U.S. must be capable of taking similar steps, screening passengers both entering being turned on. “Powerless devices will not be permitted and leaving the UK. The BBC reports that the new re- onboard the aircraft,” the TSA’s announcement states, quirement is now in place at Heathrow Airport. But while adding that some travelers may be subjected to “additional passengers now face the possibility that they may not be screening.” able to take their electronic devices on board if they aren’t demonstrably charged up and working, an informal survey The logic behind this announcement is that a cell phone or by the BBC at Heathrow’s Terminal 3 reported a number of laptop that can be powered up during a security screening unused electrical outlets in a cafe there. must, therefore, be so utterly chock-full of electronics and batteries that there simply would be no room left for an It remains unclear exactly how the TSA and their overseas explosive. NBC News reports that the new measures come counterparts will conclusively judge that an electronic as a response to fears that western fighters in the Syrian device is sufficiently functional that it can be brought on civil war might try to smuggle small-but-powerful bombs board. The “if it lights up, it’s safe” criterion does seem a onto U.S. aircraft. The enhanced security measures are little flawed, but at least the new rules bring a little con- apparently being implemented in airports in Europe, the sistency to a previously randomly applied policy that saw Middle East, and northern Africa, and are being applied to laptops being pulled out of bags to be X-rayed, but not passengers on flights headed directly for American destina- netbooks, or, possibly, tablets. tions. Details remain sketchy at the moment — the TSA, in characteristically mysterious fashion, are releasing few de- But the question of the efficacy of the new system must be tails of the new measures. According to NBC, the enhanced raised. If a cell phone is large enough that if one could, if screenings are taking place at airports in London, Frankfurt, hollowed out, contain enough explosive to do significant and Paris, but the TSA are not specifying which other ports damage, then how hard would it be to fit that much explo- may be included. sive inside a laptop and still make it sufficiently functional to pass this test? Remove the hard drive from a MacBook The United States government cannot enforce its own new Pro, for example, replace it with something worryingly security procedures outside American territory; the new bangy, and when you push the power button, the thing requirements are being enacted by the aviation security will chime, the screen will light up and there’ll be a flash- services of countries out of which flights for the United ing question mark on the screen. Will a TSA agent have the

Jul - Aug 2014 Page 6 specialized knowledge to know the significance of this? Will Certainly, some form of last-resort charging system might the same agent have the breadth of specialized knowledge to not be a bad idea — now that we’re allowed to use our recognize similar red flags on other platforms? devices throughout flights, we’re likely to see an increasing Perhaps a few standard chargers — an Apple MagSafe number of passengers bringing them, and while we’re connector, a Lightning connector for new iOS devices, a resigned to having tubes of toothpaste confiscated at the micro USB cable, or even a legacy Dock connector — might security checkpoint, it’s less likely that passengers will be installed at security checkpoints to allow people to be so sanguine if the man in the blue shirt tries to take prove that, even if they’re dead, their devices are still benign. an iPhone away. by Jeff Carlson Aperture’s Golden Hour

photography, the “golden hour” is that slice of time “Apple Unveils iOS 8 and OS X Yosemite at WWDC,” 2 June just before and after sunset when the sun is low in 2014). Inthe sky and the light is often bronze-hued and dramatic. It’s one of the best times of the day to capture photos, but And here’s where we’re currently wandering in the weeds the good light too soon rolls over into darkness. amid the fading light. In Apple’s typical way, it’s looking ahead to the next solution and not, at least based on Apple’s professional photo-management application, outward appearances, to the present. Photography, it turns Aperture, has enjoyed an extended golden hour. Although out, is a special case. Adobe Photoshop Lightroom long ago dominated the The Photo Data Problem — market, Aperture has held on in development limbo — We’d like to think photos working fine (but sludgy, in my experience) for those who are just like other data: discrete files in formats that can be use it, but not updated in any meaningful way. Now, its read by several programs, scattered on one or more hard light is close to winking out: Apple announced last week disks. On one , a picture isn’t much different from a that it will soon halt development of Aperture. Microsoft Word file. You can even select a photo or docu- ment in the Finder and press the spacebar for a large-size Replacing it — and iPhoto, too — is the forthcoming Photos Quick Look preview. But photos have two characteristics application for OS X, which Apple teased with a brief that set them apart. demo at the Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) in June. Photos is patterned after the updated Photos app First, photos contain a lot of other information — metadata under iOS, and it’s due to arrive in early 2015. — that describes aspects of them other than basic image capture data. An application like Aperture tracks informa- If you’ve idly considered a jump to Lightroom, now is the tion such as keywords and location data that may not be time to start thinking more seriously about the transition. written to the image file. (JPEG files, which make up the However, there’s no immediate rush. Apple plans to bulk of all photos, store that data within the file itself, but update Aperture to work with OS X Yosemite, making the many photographers choose to capture photos in raw for- software usable for at least another year. mats that are treated like film negatives: metadata is either tracked by the photo application or exists in “sidecar” files As is often the case with Apple, information about the move that accompany the original image.) away from Aperture is scarce. The company contacted some professional photographers and news outlets to seed Aperture (and iPhoto) also feature many tools for editing the news with a short statement (I first read it at The Loop): images. Photographers don’t want to permanently alter their original shots, so the application also tracks what’s “With the introduction of the new Photos app and iCloud changed in a photo to be able to revert back to the Photo Library, enabling you to safely store all of your photos unretouched state. in iCloud and access them from anywhere, there will be no new development of Aperture. When Photos for OS X This leads to the second characteristic of photos: We ships next year, users will be able to migrate their existing typically interact with them as a larger collection of images, Aperture libraries to Photos for OS X.” not individually. We import dozens or hundreds at a time from our cameras or iPhones and examine them as a body Aperture currently supports the existing iCloud Photo before drilling down to work on single shots. Stream capability, but it’s a bolted-on feature that I suspect most photographers, pro or amateur, either ignore or don’t So with the new Photos application, Apple isn’t just interact with much. iCloud Photo Library, announced at updating an application, it’s updating everyone’s image libraries. WWDC, will store all your photos on Apple’s servers, You’re probably not going to start fresh with an empty accessible via the Photos apps on iOS and OS X (see Photos library when the software is released. You’re going Jul - Aug 2014 Page 7 to bring all (or most) of the photos you’ve captured and • It will need to seamlessly open iPhoto and Aperture stored in iPhoto, Aperture, or other software. libraries. Perhaps Apple is keeping the same library format and building up from there. The key will be how much of a Let’s compare this situation to other application rewrites in hassle the migration process is. Apple’s recent past. • It will need to preserve all metadata entered using iPhoto When Keynote was rebuilt and released as version 6.0, it or Aperture. That’s a small order for iPhoto, but professionals didn’t support some features present in Keynote ’09. That take advantage of the many ways photos in Aperture can was certainly annoying, but in most cases people don’t be tagged (keywords, ratings, color labels, flags). need to open old presentations. They build a new presen- tation using the latest version, or they convert one or two • It will need at least some advanced features that Aperture files and work around the limitations. There’s often a line users take advantage of, such as metadata presets for in the sand after which you don’t need to access most older applying information to photos during the import stage. files. • It will need robust raw image format support. Aperture Apple has a notorious history of clear-cutting old software and Lightroom initially appealed to photographers because to make room for new in this way. iMovie, for example, their adjustment tools work directly with raw images; the gained a brand new approach with iMovie ’08, but didn’t advanced adjustments are limited when working with catch up to the previous version’s feature set for a couple of JPEG images. Camera manufacturers use proprietary raw revisions. And many Final Cut Pro users are still hanging formats in their cameras, resulting in the applications being unable to process files from the newest cameras on the onto their editing systems three years after the introduc- market until updates arrive. Lightroom has traditionally tion of Final Cut Pro X. The ones who did make the switch held the edge in this department because Apple updates its wisely completed projects in the old version and reserved raw support at the system level, not the application level, Final Cut Pro X for use with new projects. although the frequency of updates has improved over the With photos, however, you can’t just disregard old photos last couple of years. More important, Photos will need to and move forward with the new, unless you’re willing incorporate the same fine-tuned raw adjustments that to make a clean break and risk that your old library may Aperture uses now. become inaccessible. Part of having a photo library is to • It will need to handle edited photos cleanly, retaining be able to reach into it to find old images. Abandoning a adjustment histories if possible or, more likely, the ability mature application like Aperture, where users probably to discard all edits and revert back to the original. What manage thousands or tens of thousands of images, is we don’t want to see are hundreds of unwanted duplicates complicated. created by edited versions of photos.

(I go into much greater detail about managing photos in Chances are, unless Apple has really spent all this time Take Control of Your Digital Photos my book , which favors building a deep application while ignoring Aperture and Lightroom but also includes information about working iPhoto, Photos for OS X will fall down in one or more of with Aperture and iPhoto.) those areas. (I’d love to be proved wrong.) But Apple’s pattern of re-engineering applications and releasing them Oh, and I almost forgot to mention a third characteristic: with core — not comprehensive — functionality doesn’t photos are also deeply personal artifacts that represent our make me optimistic. Features present in old versions may fondest memories, and people get extremely emotional if not appear for several incremental releases of the new their images are lost or needlessly duplicated during the versions as initial bugs are worked out. conversion between applications and versions. (Backups! Backups! Backups, my friends!) For iPhoto users, that isn’t a concern. Aperture users will likely move to something else and see if Apple is interested Expectations of the Photos App — Fortunately, Apple in wooing them back in the future. knows all of this. To revisit Apple’s statement: “...users will be able to migrate their existing Aperture libraries to Photos Photo Assistants — Then again, maybe Apple is taking for OS X.” Photos in a different, modular direction. According to a report by Ars Technica, Apple said it will allow third party Aperture and iPhoto share the same database format, so extensions, presumably similar to the capability coming in you can currently open iPhoto libraries in Aperture and iOS 8. Want better black-and-white conversions than what vice-versa without losing metadata or adjustments; iPhoto Photos offers? Load aNik Silver Efex Pro module. just ignores what it doesn’t understand. No doubt the shift to a compatible library format, which happened two years Or (and I’m completely speculating here), maybe Apple ago, presaged the move to Photos for OS X. wants to get off the raw image train and let Adobe pick up the slack by enabling customers to process images using But what will Photos offer in terms of features? Right away, Adobe Camera Raw. That would contradict Apple’s it will have to fulfill a lot of expectations: inclination to make the photo experience fall entirely under

Jul - Aug 2014 Page 8 its umbrella, but perhaps the company is content to focus don’t know whether the light and sky at dawn will be on core functionality instead. dramatic or muddled with clouds. So, you set up your Morning Light — Photographers wake up early to take camera, breathe in the morning air, and hope for the best. advantage of the light at sunrise as well as at sunset. Often, Photos for OS X looks to be a new day for Apple and driving or hiking to a scenic location in the dark, you photographers. by Tim Sullivan Rumors and Reality

Around Apple Lucida Grande is a humanist sans-serif typeface. It is a member of the Lucida family of typefaces designed • Mac OS X 10.10 (Yosemite) will feature an end-to-end by Charles Bigelow and Kris Holmes. It has been used redesign. There will be a new look: similar toggle designs throughout Mac OS X user interface since 1999, as well as to iOS 7, sharper window corners, more defined icons in Safari for Windows up to the browser’s version 3.2.3 across the system, and more white space than the current released on 12 May 2009. version. Apart from Mac OS X, many websites and blogs use Lucida There will be more convergence with iOS where it makes Grande as the default typeface for body text, for example sense. Major features such as Finder, Mission Control, and multitask will remain. Facebook and many phpBB message boards.

• Down the road Helvetica Neue – Song identification: Siri would listen to a song playing and use Shazam’s database to id the track. – Apple acquired BookLamp, a reading recommendation app. Based on your reading preferences, the application would suggest other books for you to read. – Apple TV has become more of a priority. Look for new content and Siri-based voice control

• You can buy and download almost as many tracks as you want from Apple. But tracks loaded from other sources are limited to 25,000. Be advised — do not go over that limit. You will enter the Twilight Zone where very strange things will happen: errors connecting to servers and inability to upload or download. Removing tracks from iTunes probably won’t help.

Consider creating a second library. You can then move music back and forth Helvetica (Latin for Swiss) has the style which was • The current system font, Lucida Grande, will be replaced associated with Swiss typography in the 1950s and 1960s. by Helvetica Neue. It is perfect for international correspondence: no ornament, no emotion, just clear presentation of information. Helvetica Lucida Grande is still one of the best selling sans-serif fonts.

Neue Helvetica is a reworking of the typeface with a more structurally unified set of heights and widths. Other changes include improved legibility, heavier punctuation marks, and increased spacing in the numbers. The design was launched in 1983.

• The new iPhone could include a new sensor: a barometer. A barometer is a sensor commonly used for measuring altitude and the sensor is already found in Android devices such as the Galaxy Nexus. A barometer sensor could be used by hikers, mountain climbers, bike riders, and enthusiasts who want accurate knowledge into their current altitude. Barometers, via air pressure data, also measure temperature and weather information. Jul - Aug 2014 Page 9 • In a deal that could deepen Apple’s sales to corporations • Split-screen view and strengthen IBM’s position in business software, the two companies announced a wide-ranging partnership • Camera intended to spread advanced mobile and data analysis My wish list for my camera includes GPS and time-lapse technology in the corporate world. photography. Actually my iPhone will have both when iOS 8 gets here. Check here to see what you can do with IBM and Apple have been working together on the venture time-lapse on the iPhone. for several months, and they are jointly working on more than 100 business software programs developed exclusively iPhone 6’s camera is expected to include a wider aperture, for Apple’s iOS operating system and for use on iPhones a time-lapse mode, a filter for color shifts, and possibly and iPads. The applications will be tailored for use some form of image-stabilization feature. Despite wide- in industries including retail, health care, transportation, spread demand, it seems unlikely that it will support RAW banking, insurance and telecommunications. images owing to the massive hard drive demands of the file type. To run Yosemite, users will need Macs with 2GB of RAM, at least 8GB of available storage and at least OS X • Find your car 10.6.8 already installed on the device, in order to be able to Apple is developing a Maps feature that will help users download Yosemite from the Mac App Store. find their parked cars.

The full list of Yosemite-compatible Mac models, as listed • Mass transit Maps by ArsTechnica follows below: Apple is working on transit direction features for Maps.

• iMac (Mid-2007 or later) • New Apps Apple may introduce new apps, including a standalone • MacBook (13-inch Aluminum, Late 2008), (13-inch, Early version of iTunes Radio, and some form of TextEdit and 2009 or later) Preview, along with the capacity for third-party apps to access Siri. There will also be a Buy button situated on • MacBook Pro (13-inch, Mid-2009 or later), (15-inch, Mid/ Control Center when listening to iTunes Radio Late 2007 or later), (17-inch, Late 2007 or later) • New keyboard • MacBook Air (Late 2008 or later) You’ll be able to use alternate keyboards on your apps.

• Mac Mini (Early 2009 or later) • Song ID Apple’s Song ID feature ties Shazam search into Siri. • Mac Pro (Early 2008 or later) • Weather • Xserve (Early 2009) Apple’s Weather app won’t use Yahoo for its meteorological Check the Apple menu > About This Mac > More Info. It information any more — instead it will take data from the should indicate which Mac you are using. Weather Channel. • Notes Apple’s new HealthKit platform and Health app for You’ll be able to pop a photo into the Notes app; you’ll also iOS 8 acts as a central location for users to store and share be able to hide images within the Photos app. health data from third-party apps, but Apple is also sup- porting some Bluetooth accessories natively in the Health • Recover app. That means that some accessory manufacturers will be You’ll be able to recover deleted images. (Although I able to skip the process of developing a companion app for wouldn’t wait too long. It could get over-written.) their product and instead allow HealthKit to automatically connect to and control the device itself. • New lockscreen Apple is opening up the lockscreen for a number of creative Heart rate and blood pressure monitors, glucose sensors, ideas: and health thermometers will be build into the watch. – the ability to show apps on your lockscreen — even if Changes in iOS 8: you don’t have the app installed — triggered by iBeacon. – The Continuity feature being built into OS X and iOS will • Extensive customization User will be able to Customize show an icon on the iOS screen when you are working on everything including fonts, text colors and highlights. the OS X platform. The file will be available for completion on either platform. • Private lives – Third parties already access the lockscreen. Slidelock iOS 8 randomizes MAC addresses when scanning for Wi-Fi Locker allows notifications to appear on your lockscreen networks. The effect will be to stop retailers and location and even supports touch-free viewing of those notifications. tracking firms from spying on iPhone users as they go And the anonymous chat app called Wut pops messages about their day. right up on top of your lockscreen as push notifications.

Jul - Aug 2014 Page 10 • Photos Second, Apple has said that users will be able to migrate Apple has begun notifying users of the soon-to-be-defunct their existing photo libraries to Photos for OS X when the iPhoto for iOS to migrate their iPhoto data to the totally application arrives in “early 2015.” We don’t yet know revamped Photos app in iOS 8, as part of Apple’s new what that migration process will look like, but it will prob- photo strategy being rolled out this fall and early next ably be a built-in step the first time you run Photos that year. While photo data can be migrated out of iPhoto, converts the library, just as previous updates to iPhoto and Apple warns that Journals, Slideshows and Book layouts Aperture have done over the years. will no longer be available going forward. A big advantage on this front is the fact that iPhoto and Migrate photo library: It’s important to recognize that Aperture share the same library format. Currently, you you don’t need to immediately block off the next week to can open a photo library in either application without migrate your photo library. iPhoto still works and Aperture converting the data. will be updated to work with OS X Yosemite, scheduled here to appear this fall (likely October). That gives you at least Check for direction on how to move your photo library a year — assuming Apple won’t continue to support Ap- to a Finder folder. erture in the next OS X revision after Yosemite — to plot a strategy, and more important, to evaluate options as they arrive.

Jul - Aug Software Review

FunBITS: Blek Is a Curvy Challenge for iPhone and iPad

by Josh Centers

Though Independence Day has passed here in the United States, there remains, at least in my neighborhood, a month-long nightly barrage of outdoor explosions. Maybe, like me, you need a nice, quiet way to unwind. If so, you may want to check out Apple Design Award-winner Blek, a game based on calligraphy by developer Denis Mikan. Blek is $2.99 in the App Store (28 MB).

A game based on calligraphy? Here’s how it works: you have to burst colored bubbles by drawing lines. That might sound dull, but what makes Blek brilliant is how the lines take off like an ink snake after you draw them. Draw a straight line and it will shoot straight out. Draw an arc and Figuring out those mechanics become essential when black it’ll scamper off the bottom of the screen, but if you draw dots are introduced, which act like black holes, sucking an arc that ends in an opposing curve, it’ll loop up and your line into oblivion. The trick then becomes drawing a down across the screen like a waveform. To get a better line in such a way so it curves around the black dots while idea of how the mechanics work, watch the official trailer. hitting the colored ones. Each level can be a frustrating exercise in trial and error, but fortunately, if a plan doesn’t come together, you can merely draw another to start fresh.

Jul - Aug 2014 Page 11 Another trick to the game is that your line will bounce off The OS X Mavericks 10.9.4 Update is recommended for all the sides of the screen but vanish into the top and bottom. Mavericks users. It improves the stability, compatibility, It’s a key mechanic in many levels, where you have to angle and security of your Mac. the line in such a way that it will loop around the black holes, hit the colored ones, then bounce off the side and up This update: at such an angle to hit another set of colored dots — while • Fixes an issue that prevented some Macs from not crossing over the top or bottom edges of the screen. It’s automatically connecting to known Wi-Fi networks a game that takes rigorous thought to succeed. • Improves the reliability of wake from sleep

• Includes Safari 7.0.5 OS X Mavericks 10.9.4 Update Jun 30, 2014 – 283 MB System Requirements – OS X 10.9

The OS X Mavericks 10.9.4 Update is recommended for all Mavericks users. It improves the stability, compatibility, That’s really all there is to Blek. It’s a simple, nearly Zen-like and security of your Mac. experience, but with over 60 levels, it will leave you chal- lenged for a long time. The New Yorker included Blek in This update: its 2013 list of elegant iPhone games, and Mike Fahey of named Blek “the most brilliant game I’ve played all • Fixes an issue that prevented some Macs from year.” Blek is the best of mobile gaming in its purest form, automatically connecting to known Wi-Fi networks a kind of touch-based game too simple to be feasible on a • Improves the reliability of wake from sleep traditional game console, but nevertheless a fulfilling experience. • Includes Safari 7.0.5 Security Update 2014-003 (Mountain Lion) Jun 30, 2014 – 139.3 MB Apple Updates System Requirements – OS X 10.8.5 iTunes 11.3 Security Update 2014-003 is recommended for all users and Jul 10, 2014 – 239.6 MB improves the security of OS X. System Requirements Security Update 2014-003 (Lion) – OS X 10.6.8 or later Jun 30, 2014 – 134 MB – 400MB of available disk space System Requirements – iTunes in the Cloud, iTunes Match, and iTunes Radio – OS X 10.7.5 availability may vary by country – iTunes Radio requires OS X 10.7 or later Security Update 2014-003 is recommended for all users and – iTunes Extras requires OS X 10.9.3 or later improves the security of OS X. iTunes 11.3 includes all-new iTunes Extras for HD movies. ProApps Codecs 1.0.5 iTunes Extras can include behind-the-scenes videos, short Jun 27, 2014 – 2.6 MB films, high-resolution image galleries, director’s commen- System Requirements tary, scenes, and more. These immersive iTunes Extras can – OS X 10.6 or later also be enjoyed on Apple TV with Software Update 6.2 now, and will be available on iOS 8 this fall. This update adds the following video codecs:

New iTunes Extras will be automatically added to your • Apple Intermediate Codec previously purchased HD movies as they become available • Apple ProRes — at no additional charge. • AVC-Intra • DVCPRO HD OS X Mavericks 10.9.4 Update (Combo) • HDV Jun 30, 2014 – 958.2 MB • XDCAM HD / EX / HD422 System Requirements • MPEG IMX – OS X 10.9 • Uncompressed 4:2:2

Jul - Aug 2014 Page 12 This update is recommended for all users of Final Cut Pro This update: X, Motion 5, or Compressor 4. • Improves 4K display support on Mac Pro (Late 2013) and Java for OS X 2014-001 MacBook Pro with 15-inch Retina Display (Late 2013) May 29, 2014 – 63.98 MB • Adds the ability to sync contacts and calendars between System Requirements a Mac and iOS device using a USB connection – OS X Lion 10.7 or later – OS X Mountain Lion 10.8 or later • Improves the reliability of VPN connections using IPsec – OS X Mavericks 10.9 or later • Includes Safari 7.0.3 Java for OS X 2014-001 includes installation improvements, OS X Mavericks 10.9.3 Update and supersedes all previous versions of Java for OS X. This May 15, 2014 – 461.7 MB package installs the same version of Java 6 included in Java for OS X 2013-005. System Requirements – OS X Mavericks 10.9. Digital Camera RAW Compatibility Update 5.05 May 15, 2014 – 7.3 MB This update: System Requirements • Improves 4K display support on Mac Pro (Late 2013) and – OS X Mountain Lion 10.8.5 w/ iPhoto 9.4.3 or Aper- MacBook Pro with 15-inch Retina Display (Late 2013) ture 3.4.5 – OS X Mavericks 10.9 w/ iPhoto 9.4.3 or Aperture 3.4.5 • Adds the ability to sync contacts and calendars between a Mac and iOS device using a USB connection This update adds RAW image compatibility for the following camera to Aperture 3 and iPhoto ‘11: • Improves the reliability of VPN connections using IPsec • Canon EOS Rebel T5 / 1200D / Kiss X70 • Includes Safari 7.0.3 • Canon PowerShot G1 X Mark II • Nikon D4S Canon Printer Drivers 3.0 for OS X • Sony Cyber-shot DSC-RX10 May 8, 2014 – 257.2 MB OS X Mavericks 10.9.3 Update (Combo) System Requirements – OS X Lion or later May 15, 2014 – 947.2 MB

System Requirements This update installs the latest software for your Canon – OS X Mavericks 10.9 printer or scanner.

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